Analyst, Investor Relations

Firefly Aerospace, Inc.; Cedar Park (TX); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision insurance

Parental leave

Educational reimbursement

Short-term disability

Pet-friendly workplace

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Firefly Aerospace, Inc. in Cedar Park, Texas, seeks a dynamic Investor Relations Analyst to support quarterly earnings, develop shareholder communications, and manage investor events and tours while positioning the company’s growth trajectory.

The role requires analytical rigor, capital-markets fluency, and the ability to interface with institutional and retail investors, research analysts, and executives to translate technical achievements into a compelling investment narrative.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years of experience in financial services or IR support within aerospace/defense, industrials, or technology.
• Experience managing earnings cycles, regulator filings, and investor relations.
• Strong financial modeling skills and ability to translate data into an investment thesis.

Responsibilities

• Support investor communications, messaging, and presentations, and manage shareholder events and site visits.
• Prepare materials for earnings calls, investor presentations, roadshows, and conferences.
• Build and maintain detailed financial models to measure performance against expectations.
• Collaborate with sell-side and buy-side to relay company messaging and respond to inquiries.
• Monitor industry and market developments; produce reports for management on changes and sentiment.

Skills

IR experience

Financial modeling

Aerospace familiarity

Earnings cycles

Strong communication

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Market data tools

Job description

At Firefly, we’re focused on making space attainable for everyone – including you! Each team member’s passion, dedication, and innovative ideas have a direct impact on fueling our successful trajectory into space. And there’s no shortage of meaningful projects to work on at Firefly. With launch, lunar, and orbital vehicles, Firefly has a diverse line of business with opportunities to get hands‑on experience launching rockets, operating in space, and landing on the Moon.

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Our Values

Headquartered in the Lone Star State, Firefly’s hardworking team reflects Texas’ GO BIG culture in everything we do. We build big, achieve big, and dream big. We’re building launch vehicles and spacecraft to provide rapid, reliable space access. We’ve achieved some incredible wins, including the first successful commercial Moon landing. And we’re dreaming bigger than this planet with ambitions to Mars, Venus, and beyond. Our core values are what drive us along the way.

Passion

Fireflies believe in perseverance, responsiveness, and mentoring others with a focus on inspiring a better future.

Accountability

Fireflies act with integrity and take ownership of our actions, commitments, decisions, and outcomes.

Fireflies work in alignment across teams and communicate clearly with mutual respect for one another.

Fireflies deliver high‑quality work through technical rigor and timely disciplined execution for our customers.

We take care of our Fireflies with some of the best benefits in the industry. Our mission to make space for everyone starts with our employees and allowing them to make space for their family, their career, and their future.

Space for You

• Unlimited PTO for exempt employees
• 3-month sabbatical for every 5 years of service
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
• Mental health services
• Paid military leave

Space for Your Family

• 12 weeks paid maternity leave
• 4 weeks paid spouse leave
• $20k towards family planning: fertility, surrogacy, adoption
• Dog friendly workplace

Space for Your Career

• $10k/year towards trade school or college
• Ongoing coaching to advance leadership skills
• Employee-ownership with stock bonuses
• 4% Safe Harbor 401(k) matching
• $10k bonus for home purchase in Cedar Park, Texas

Job Openings

From launch technicians to propulsion engineers, Firefly has open roles across the company. We’re looking for passionate, bright innovators to join our team and help make space an achievable dream for everyone.

Firefly Aerospace is a space and defense technology company on a mission to reliably and repeatedly launch, land, and operate space systems from Earth to the Moon and beyond. As the partner of choice for critical space missions, Firefly is the first commercial company to launch a satellite to orbit with 24-hour notice and the first company to achieve a successful Moon landing. Headquartered in north Austin, Texas, Firefly is looking for passionate, hardworking innovators to join our team and help fuel our successful trajectory into space.

SUMMARY

We are seeking a dynamic and motivated Investor Relations Analyst to join our Cedar Park, Texas team. As an IR Analyst, you will have hands‑on experience in the process of driving shareholder value by supporting quarterly earnings, financial modeling, developing shareholder communications, managing investor events and tours, and monitoring investor engagement.

You will need to apply analytical rigor, capital‑markets fluency, and a strategic understanding of the space economy to every day of your work. You will interface with institutional and retail investors, research analysts, investment bankers, senior executives, and more while positioning the company’s achievements and growth trajectory.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Support investor communications, messaging, and presentations, as well as manage events and facility site visits for current and potential shareholders.
• Prepare materials for earnings calls, investor presentations, roadshows, and conferences.
• Build and maintain detailed financial models that measure internal performance against Wall Street expectations, with an understanding of analyst valuation methods to identify and resolve issues that require attention.
• Support relationships with sell‑side equity research analysts, buy‑side institutional investors, and investment banking partners, serving as a key and readily available point of contact.
• Monitor developments and announcements from space sector peers, particularly with a focus on using artificial intelligence‑driven tools for efficient analysis, and prepare reports for management regarding key changes identified from commentary, press releases, events, and securities filings.
• Track and synthesize analyst research, investor feedback, and market sentiment to refine messaging and identify gaps in market understanding.
• Analyze technical trading data to identify driving functions and measure outcomes from capital markets activity to inform company leadership.
• Proactively identify and resolve gaps in market understanding through targeted outreach and strategic messaging refinement.
• Collaborate with the adjacent corporate functions to ensure consistent, accurate, and compelling messaging across all channels.

REQUIREMENTS

• 2-5 years of experience in financial services – particularly supporting Aerospace & Defense, Industrials, or Technology sectors – such as from investment banking, private equity, equity research, or corporate finance.
• Public company IR experience such as direct experience managing earnings cycles, regulatory filings, and institutional investor relationships.
• Demonstrated strength in financial modeling and experience rapidly synthesizing complex information into a clear investment thesis, with incontrovertible knowledge of financial statements, securities filings, valuation metrics, and capital markets.
• Proven ability to work under pressure and in a fast‑paced, highly technical environment while maintaining quality work.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; able to think critically and write clearly with attention to detail.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, with experience presenting to both large audiences and top decision‑makers.
• AI/ML tool fluency: Experience leveraging generative artificial intelligence for competitive intelligence and market monitoring.
• Foundational knowledge about the commercial space ecosystem and intellectual curiosity about the launch and spacecraft markets.

Firefly offers outstanding benefits for our employees, including generous health, dental and vision plans with low plan deductibles, parental leave, educational reimbursement, short term disability, pet Insurance, and flexible PTO options.

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Firefly Aerospace, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Firefly is governed based on merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.